Humanizing Technology for Court Reporters

Do you need a technology intervention? After this class, you could probably get a job at Radio Shack if the whole Q&A thing doesn’t work out! It’s chic to be a geek!

We won’t just TELL you, we’ll SHOW you:

Attorneys waiting, and you need to reboot? How to be back up and running in about ten seconds flat.

See ya later, serial ports … get the skinny on all the techniques for wireless realtime.
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Are you a court reporter who needs to fulfill the 2.5 hours of ethics requirements for your CSR? Then this is the class for you!

I’ve always been fascinated by stories about all the crazy things reporters do. I’ve been researching case studies in situations where court reporters have been reprimanded, fined, made the news, lost their job entirely or had their license suspended.

I won’t mention names, as I’m not out to embarrass anybody, but I think we can all learn a few lessons about ethics and rules from these real life catastrophes. I promise this will be the most fun you ever had getting your ethics points!

Classes coming soon in Houston, Dallas, Austin and on a cruise out of Galveston to Jamaica/Cozumel/Cayman Islands. Hope you’ll join me!

I Love Eclipse Training University
September 9-12
New Orleans

Earn up to 3.0 CEUs!

Here’s the breakdown in a nutshell:

Thursday: A full day of automatic indexing and formatting … hooray! Get your index done with all the secret codes needed to instantly pull in your exhibits, exams and anything else you want tossed in the Table of Contents. Unlock the mystery surrounding automatic indexing and save yourself a bunch of time typing all that text in. Take home your completely customized automatic index as an awesome New Orleans souvenir!

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Got up at 3:00 a.m. yesterday, took a cab to the Austin airport, 6:30 flight to St. Louis, drove a rental car two and a half hours in the pouring rain to teach Eclipse software to some future court reporters in Southern Illinois. Usually when it’s raining, students don’t show up, but they were there.
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A few years ago I totally splurged on this super powerful Lenovo Titanium blah-blah-blah supposedly killer laptop. I needed a really good work computer, as I’ve been meaning to create some training videos for years now, but that computer was a big disappointment from day one. I’m not good at returning things, and by the time the 90-day warranty ran out, I was stuck with it.  It was mine, for better or worse.
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If you’re a reporter who’s just purchased a new laptop with Vista, save yourself some major headaches by following these simple steps to disable the UAC in Vista.
(From Advantage Software)
1. Click the button formerly know as “The Start Button”.

2. Open the Control Panel

3. Click the “User Accounts” link

4. Click the “Add or Remove User Accounts” link to open the user accounts page.

UAC Nag: If you are nagged by Vista with a window that says “Windows needs your permission to continue”, click the Continue button to proceed to the User accounts page. (This is UAC in all its glory.)

5. Click the “Go to Main User Accounts Page” link at the bottom of the user accounts page. Revisit UAC Nag above…

6. Click the “Turn User Account Control on or off” link.

7. Uncheck the UAC option, then click Ok. (A balloon pop-up warning will appear, from the taskbar, stating that your UAC settings have been modified.)

8. REBOOT! Yes, you have to REBOOT… and you have to party like it’s 1998, when we had to reboot every time we made modifications to our Windows computers.

This is a classic!

A great example of what goes through a court reporter’s mind sitting in court all day.

CLICK HERE to watch the video ….

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